title: Shade selection by color vision-defective dental personnel.
abstract: This investigation studied the impairment of Hue, Value, and Chroma matching by color vision-defective dental personnel. Color-defective dental personnel were found to make significantly greater errors in Hue and Chroma selection than normal-vision dental personnel. Value, the component of shade selection considered the most important, was uneffected. Color-normal dental assistants were significantly more accurate in Hue and Chroma selection than color-defective dental personnel and could assist affected dentists in clinical situations.
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery.
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Davison
authors.forename: N R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Myslinski
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003116:Color; D003117:Color Vision Defects / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003726:Dental Assistants; D003815:Dentists; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013335:Students, Dental